Error: In Ops.factor

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I'm working with a data.frame of weather data and want to know if the data is within the reading limits of the equipment. For this, the tolerance limits adopted for temperature (% with%,% with% and% with%) are -40 ° C to +60 ° C. In a new column the grades are assigned: temp_med when the data is within that limit, temp_max for when it is out and temp_min when the line has no data.

Used script: 

lim_temp<- (-40)<= dados_horas$temp_med & dados_horas$temp_med <= 60
dados_horas$nota1_temp_med [lim_temp] <- 5L
dados_horas$nota1_temp_med [!lim_temp] <- 6L
dados_horas$nota1_temp_med <- 7L

obs: 1 - Name of my database; 3 - column I want to work with; 7 - new column with notes.

But it's popping up with the following error:

  

Warning messages:   1: In Ops.factor (data_time $ temp_med, (-40)):     '<' not meaningful for factors   2: In Ops.factor (data_time $ temp_med, 60):     '

asked by anonymous 07.10.2018 / 00:51

1 answer

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As pointed out in the comments by @RuiBarradas, the error message is reporting that this operation is not significant for factors.

In the r , factors are categorical variables. And there is in fact no reason to believe that there could be comparisons of the greater or lesser type between variables such as "Man" / "Woman" or "Asia" / "America" / "Africa".

This problem occurred because numeric data was read as factor . To solve it, simply transform the data to numeric.

In the solution proposed by @RuiBarradas in the comments, 

dados_horas$temp_med <- as.numeric(as.character(dados_horas$temp_med))

It is worth remembering that to transform data from factor to numeric it is necessary, before transforming it into text.

    
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